Bridget: 13/26: Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman

Stats: 352pp. Sci-Fi

Summary: Great read! If you read American Gods by Gaiman, you would definitely be pleased with this novel too. Even with my status of being a hard at work student, I still made time to read this one.

The book starts out with a character named Fat Charlie Nancy. He is the son of the spider god Anansi. With the sudden death of his father (you may wonder how a god can die... it is explained in the book), Fat Charlie's life changes. A surprise visitor comes to see Fat Charlie and his once normal life is bombarded with the influence of the gods. Like most Gaiman books that I have read, the main character goes on a journey where he learns more about himself, his history, and ultimately becomes better and stronger than he once was.

Highly recommended. If you have not read anything by Neil Gaiman, you should start now. This book like all others I have read by this author is a great story that was waiting to be told. Gaiman is such a good story teller because he intertwines myth and reality in such a way that you think that these things really can and do happen :) His graphic novel The Sandman is a good starter into the Neil Gaiman world.